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...prod us out of scientific complacency and give rise to a more adequate defense apparatus. But there is a greater significance to the challenge. The nation, as some already realize, must reappraise its sources of strength, must base its confidence on firm, not illusory ground, and must reconstruct its policies and tactics on this new foundation. America is still technologically the leader; her people live more luxuriously than any people in history. And the promise for the future is not eclipsed by Russia's satellites in space. But, in the interests of our allies and ourselves, we must realize that...
...more radical suggestion is to reconstruct Leverett entirely within the Grant-Cowperwaithe block. This would mean that McKinlock Hall--the present nucleus of Leverett--would be used for some other purpose, possibly graduate student housing...
Free Love & Bolshevism. He introduced its first undergraduate course in social science, injected large doses of philosophy into the curriculum. He brought in such men as Poet Robert Frost, Author Stark Young and Critic George Whicher. But in trying to reconstruct the college, he infuriated many oldtimers on the faculty. He also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit...
...this vast mass of ignorance about people arose the arrogance which led Rumplestiltskin to all his sorrow. For both he and the University entertained theories about who he was and what he might become. And so they both imagined him as somebody he was not, and then tried to reconstruct him in the new image...
...that now make nests for rats in desert rock holes, or repose in battered cigarette boxes with such labels as Gold Star and Friends, are not the only puzzle pieces that need gathering and fitting together. There are also human and historical fragments from which scholars are trying to reconstruct the story of the Qumran sect itself-one of the great dramas of the Judeo-Christian tradition...